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Title	:	Linden Hills
Author	:	Gloria Naylor
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	March 4th 1986 by Penguin Books (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. African American. Classics. American. African American Literature

Linden Hills

Gloria Naylor

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 2294 Users | 129 Reviews

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A world away from Brewster Place, yet intimately connected to it, lies Linden Hills. With its showcase homes, elegant lawns, and other trappings of wealth, Linden Hills is not unlike other affluent black communities. But residence in this community is indisputable evidence of "making it." Although no one knows what the precise qualifications are, everyone knows that only certain people get to live there—and that they want to be among them.

Once people get to Linden Hills, the quest continues, more subtle, but equally fierce: the goal is a house on Tupelo Drive, the epitome of achievement and visible success. No one notices that the property on Tupelo Drive goes back on sale quickly; no one questions why there are always vacancies at Linden Hills.

In a resonant novel that takes as its model Dante's Inferno, Gloria Naylor reveals the truth about the American dream—that the price of success may very well be a journey down to the lowest circle of hell.

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Original Title:	Linden Hills
ISBN:	0140088296 (ISBN13: 9780140088298)
Edition Language:	English

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Strangely enough, I happened to start reading this book on December 19th, the same day that Willie and Lester begin their descent into Linden Hills. I read everything else on the date it happened, except for the last day (Christmas Eve) because I didn't want the holiday to get in the way of it.Linden Hills is another absolutely unmistakable Gloria Naylor work - there's the archetypal isolated setting at the fringes of reality and fantasy, the brilliant riffing on classic literature (doing to

Linden Hills follows two would-be street poets, lifelong friends from different sides of the tracks, as they work their way through the titular community, an upscale black neighborhood where old heartache and suburban malaise lie beneath the veneer of affluence. Partially an exploration of the complex social stratification in the black community and part gothic horror built on allusions to Dante's Inferno, this is a novel that leaves a strong overall impression despite some missteps along the

The reason i love this book (besides the fact it is written by my favorite author) is that it provides a class, gender, race dialogue to dante's inferno in a way that easier to understand than the classic novel. The parallels between Dante's spiral into hell and the books exploration into Linden Hills are at the forefront of the novel. It gives you a perspective into the mind of how African American thought mixes with the so-called traditional literary canons...the end is sort of dull although

Many years ago, I was impressed by the Women of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor's novel of vignettes about the Black residents of that fictional urban neighborhood. She revisits that universe to write about Linden Hills, a nearby wealthy subdivision. Linden Hills is Black America's Coto de Caza, a wealthy and exclusive community where residents don't own their homes but rather rent them for near-infinite terms from the descendant of the community's founder, Luther Nedeed.Linden Hills, and the

I wanted to like this book a lot more, but I was terribly bored by the story of Luther's wife. I liked Willie's story considerably, and wished that it had been only his story. Yes, the connection to Dante is there, the social critique is there. But the best writing happens in Wille's story, not hers...

This is the first I have heard of Gloria Naylor, and her writing took me back to 1986 in America.The story takes us through the generations of Luther Needed and his way of life, values and struggles mostly being that he was Black, and what follows from the first two chapters is an account of various Black families and their children struggling to make it in life. Linden Hills is symbolic in that it is not just a place, but to most people it is the best and only place one should aspire to live in

Gloria Naylor, author of The Women of Brewster Place, grants the world another chance to read why she's considered a literary champion. When I began reading Naylor's Linden Hills I was not familiar with her works nor had any inclination to be. Oh how foolish I have been all these years. I didn't realize until the last word that I missed her voice.When I first requested Linden Hills for review it was simply because of the cover. I'm totally one of those people who judges books by their cover. I